Jeff Robinson

South Carolina

President and Contributor at The Baptist Courier

Husband, father, pastor, historian, writer, Dawgs fan, baseball nut, wild-eyed Southern boy, sinner saved by sovereign grace

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Jackie Robinson Had the Guts Not to Fight Back

1 week ago | baptistcourier.com | Jeff Robinson

Editors’ note: On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson made his debut for the Brooklyn Dodgers against the Boston Braves. In so doing, Robinson became the first black player to appear in a Major League game, and his arrival led to the tearing down of the color barrier that had kept black players out of MLB. Below is my review of the excellent movie recounting that historic occasion, “42.” This article was originally published several years ago at The Gospel Coalition.
New and Noteworthy Books — April 2025 - Baptist Courier

2 weeks ago | baptistcourier.com | Jeff Robinson

Impact Player: Leaving a Lasting Legacy On and Off the Field (Tyndale, 2012) by Bobby Richardson with David ThomasFormer Yankee Bobby Richardson played alongside Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, Whitey Ford, Joe Pepitone, and Yogi Berra during one of the most prolific dynasties in baseball history, and he remains to this day the only player from the losing team ever to be named World Series MVP.
Don’t Waste Your Hobbies: Five Reasons

3 weeks ago | baptistcourier.com | Jeff Robinson

I know he meant well, but he came off sounding a little pompous, more like a professional wrestler on Saturday afternoon TV than an ordained man of God: “The devil doesn’t take a day off. He doesn’t take vacations, and I don’t either.”I’d been speaking to him of my family’s impending trip to the beach, how relaxing it would be, how I hoped it would recharge my pastoral batteries. He was having none of it. “I haven’t had a vacation in 40 years,” he said.
Common Grace, How Sweet the Sound

3 weeks ago | baptistcourier.com | Jeff Robinson

In 1972, Christian music legend Larry Norman recorded a song that resonated with many younger evangelicals, particularly hippies whom God saved out of the Jesus People Movement. One verse in particular frames the question:There’s a good world that God has created here,He’s given us everythingThe devil has tried to steal itI don’t know why the devil should haveanything, anythingNot your soul, not your life, not your marriage,not your future, not your musicIndeed.
Short-term rental market shows signs of churn | Local News | The Daily News

1 month ago | galvnews.com | Jeff Robinson

Over-saturation of the island's short-term rental market has some owners opting out.
College Baseball: No. 2 NGU Sweeps Emmanuel

1 month ago | baptistcourier.com | Jeff Robinson

TIGERVILLE— Second-ranked North Greenville efficiently swept division foe Emmanuel over the weekend at Ray and Bea Dillard Field. The Trailblazers dropped to No. 2 in the NCWBA after losing 2 out of 3 to Belmont last weekend. Game 1Brody Fowler dominated Emmanuel. In six innings, Trailblazers’ righty allowed one hit, one walk and struck out eight in only 66 pitches. Lions’ starting pitcher Noah Cantleberry allowed only one run through his first five innings.
New and Noteworthy Books — March 2025 - Baptist Courier

1 month ago | baptistcourier.com | Jeff Robinson

Nine Marks of a Healthy Church, Fourth Edition (Crossway, 2021) by Mark DeverThis is a revised and updated version of the classic work that God has used to revitalize so many unhealthy churches over the past 34 years. Nine Marks began life in a letter Dever wrote to a church in Massachusetts on Oct. 31, 1991, a congregation in search of a new pastor. In that letter, Dever set forth nine marks he saw that a local church needs to be spiritually healthy.
Should I Stay or Should I Go? When to Consider Finding Another Church

1 month ago | baptistcourier.com | Jeff Robinson

It is the conversation with church members every pastor dreads, but inevitably comes to every man who has shepherded a local flock: “Pastor, we need to meet with you and discuss our future at the church.
The Legalist's Final Rest

1 month ago | baptistcourier.com | Jeff Robinson

I’ve found that many Christians, post-conversion, tend toward legalism or antinomianism in their pursuit of sanctification. I’ve seen this trend both in churches I’ve pastored and in Christian friends. One woman grew up in a strict Reformed Baptist home. She always tended toward legalism, and fought it biblically for years. Another friend was converted in his mid-thirties after spending many years searching for joy in bars and honky-tonks. He has battled an antinomian impulse for many years.
The Primacy of Preaching for a Healthy Church

1 month ago | baptistcourier.com | Jeff Robinson

For many years I wondered why Paul called preaching “foolishness” in 1 Corinthians 1:21. Preaching is the glorious means by which the Spirit saves and sanctifies sinners, the method by which the Lord builds His church. So how could he refer to it as folly? After preaching for nearly three decades, I’ve come to understand Paul’s paradoxical descriptor a bit better. I think he refers to the “foolishness of preaching” because the world sees it precisely that way. No surprise there.